Color photographs of Japan in the beginning of 1950

After the surrender of Japan in 1945, allied forces led by the US invaded the country. The Empire disintegrated, its form of government was replaced by a democracy, and the economy and the education system has undergone a reorganization. It took years to recover from the horrors of war, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By 1950 the former enemy became an ally of the West. Japan has found its niche — engaged in the production of electronics.

Girls in bikinis

Stringed musical instrument koto

The art of tea

Lake ASHI

Ikebana

Walk in Togakushi

The bridge on the skeleton Enoshima

Kamakura

Mount Yari

The City Of Naha

The Naha. Sakurazaka center where many

The City Of Naha

The market in Naha

On the back of the picture said, "Japanese wife clean and beautiful, when preparing a meal"

"Pearls are cultured in oysters collected a fisherman underwater. This is one of the jewels"

View of mount Fuji from the coast of MiTo on the Izu Peninsula

Fuji

Maiko — budding geisha 14-15 years

Pine groves of Miho in Shizuoka Prefecture

The island girl.

Coast Shizuura, the Izu Peninsula

Pearl fishery

A worker on the farm

Jr Osaka train station

Osaka. The Dotonbori Canal

Osaka. The cable car to MT

Osaka. Bridge Shinsaibashi

Tea ceremony

Tea collection

Train station in Tokyo

Train station in Tokyo

Tokyo

Tokyo. The Asakusa Area

Tokyo. Shopping district Ginza

Tokyo. The Nihonbashi Bridge

Tokyo. The Nihonbashi Bridge

Tokyo

Tokyo. Building WAKO Ginza

Yamanaka-Ko, the largest of the five lakes of Fuji